Iran

Number of CERN users

14 (January 2012)

CERN contact

P. Fassnacht

Participation in CERN Experiments

CMS

Participation in CERN Accelerator Projects

CLIC/CTF3

WLCG Participation

 

Collaborating Institutes

° Institute for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran

Iran has a strong intellectual tradition, which has been manifest in theoretical physics and engineering, in particular. CERN maintained contacts with individual Iranian theoreticians, notably from the Institute for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM) and from the Sharif University of Technology (SHUT) in Teheran. CERN has hosted Iranian theorists, and several individuals of Iranian origin participated in the CERN experimental programme.

At present Iran is making a renewed and strong effort to tighten its relations with CERN and its scientific community. The participation of Iran in CMS is coordinated by the IPM and progressing well, with detector components being constructed and several students have been working at CERN for training in CLIC as well as CMS. Iran is also interested in Grid computing, and pledges to build RPC chambers for the CMS.